UCL Business Award Winners

"Based
in the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) our One to Watch winners have
worked closely with UCL Business over the past few years to help commercialise
their novel process to separate and purify carbon nanotubes. Their process could help unlock the huge
commercial potential of carbon nanotubes by providing a means to separate
semiconducting tubes from metallic.

Building upon fundamental research funded by the EPSRC, the team were
successful in securing follow-on-funding which bought the technology to a
readiness level that interested a commercial partner. The partner was Linde Group, a world-leading
gases and engineering company. Linde
funded further process development in the LCN to investigate scale-up potential
and eventually entered into an exclusive licence agreement with UCLB to
commercialise the technology"